The instructor calls for particular ages to
line up in front of their monitors and then begins barking instructions at them. The young and
muscular instructor counts out their repetitions in a voice reminiscent of military precision.
And then she calls out to the group:
Come on, comrades,
put a bit of life into it!
A comrade
is another word for a fellow soldier, which also connotes some communist and/or socialist
periods of history. Therefore, the exercise period is not simply encouragingand his fellow
same-age peers to improve themselves physically. The instructor's language also unites them in a
common fight. Since exercise is required and monitored, this provides one more opportunity for
the Party to indoctrinate its citizens and carefully shape the way each person thinks. Here, the
idea that each man and woman is a soldier for the Party is carefully reinforced through the
language of the instructor.
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